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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep

Bianca Dal Bó, Yongzhao Guo, Magdalena J Mayr, Olivia S Pereira, Lisa A Levin, Victoria J Orphan, Shana K Goffredi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Methane-munching symbionts fuel sea spiders in the deep sea.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  3. Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seepProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Bianca Dal BóDepartment of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041.ORCID 0009-0007-1691-8181
Yongzhao GuoDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0009-0005-3983-8382
Magdalena J MayrDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Olivia S PereiraDivision of Integrated Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92121.
Lisa A LevinDivision of Integrated Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0000-0002-2858-8622
Victoria J OrphanDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-6178
Shana K GoffrediDepartment of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041.ORCID 0000-0002-9110-9591

Funding

NSF (NSF) OCE-2048481NSF (NSF) OCE-2048666NSF (NSF) OCE-2048720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methane seeps harbor uncharacterized animal-microbe symbioses with unique nutritional strategies. Three undescribed sea spider species (family Ammotheidae; genus

Indexed as

MethaneSpidersAnimalsBacteriaFemaleMaleMethanolPacific OceanRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSymbiosisMethaneMethanolRNA, Ribosomal, 16Sdeep-sea seepsmethanemethanotrophsea spidersymbiosis

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PMID40523202
PMCPMC12232434

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